The April 2016 issue of the Brief provides an update of the detailed estimates of remittances for 2015 and new … remittances help households and societies cope with natural disasters and epidemics …

one place fresh thinking and evidence from around the world on the outcomes of mobility in the context of global financial … crisis. This book is perhaps the first comprehensive study of remittances during the financial crisis and is a timely … effects. The resilience of remittances is good news for developing countries, but leveraging remittances for socioeconomic …

Despite the fact that the free flow of people across borders is the lynchpin of today's globalized world, more … crisis on the issue of migration have largely been ignored by the international community. The World Bank and other …

The themes of the 2006 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) are international remittances and migration, their economic … attention to remittances. The first chapter reviews recent developments in and prospects for the global economy and their … policies in improving the development impact of remittances, and, their macroeconomic impact. Chapter 5 addresses the impact of …

Origin Countries' Perspective; Chapter 4 Trends, Determinants, and Macroeconomic Effects of Remittances; Chapter 5 … Remittances, Households, and Poverty; Chapter 6 Reducing Remittance Fees … countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that …